Friday, January 13, 2012

Fall Minibook update - finally.

Coming to you from Pullman

I worked like a mad women into the wee hours of the morning for almost a week straight over Christmas break getting my minibook together.  it ended up being too full so i might have to break it up and it's still not quite finished.  some of the pages are incomplete and i did not complete Christmas break, but I threw in what I had.  i'm not sure how i feel about the minibook.  I think that if i had time to stay on top of it, it would be a nice little photo journal for me - it's not like i display my photos in any other fashion.  I enjoy making them, but it is a lot of work and i think the only way that I could have a second installment is if i promise myself to do it as i go.  that way it is also more meaningful as i can include thoughts in the moment.  also, i should take more vertical pictures, or make a horizontal book...word.  see the beginning of this minibook here.
i love my fold out page!
didn't quite get the half circle insert down on the first try. 
 i had more success on my next coupletries as you'll see below.
 it's hard to see, but i made a transparency!  I couldn'tfind very
 many transparencies at the craft store thati liked so i decided
 to just make my own.  this onewas "orange grid".  i made some
circle ones that arepictured at the bottom.  I really like the affect.
notice anything funky about the picture of Julie?  If you've spent a lot
of time in the Starbucks on Stadium way you might notice it.  Answer
at bottom!*
 had to put the monopoly board in there because
i worked so darn hard on it.
 unfinished "Thanksgiving Break" page
the minibook really encourages my hoarding tendencies.do i really
need the packaging from my christmas presents?  probably not.
i realized later that Amanda had this exact same cut-outfrom a
Burger King bag in this post.   
the "end"

These are the other transparencies that I made.
  I just made the design in Microsoft word, and
 then went to Staples to get them printed out on
 transparencies for pretty cheap.
Projects I'm going to start this weekend, maybe...
both from elise of course AND a new journal cover
AND maybe some other "mantra" art work...I want to
start off the semester strong!

*Answer: I inversed the picture of Julie so that it would look like we were looking at each other.

2 comments:

  1. Love it! Tell me: how did you get the photos to look like paint-by-numbers??

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    1. it's from this post http://p-townsisters.blogspot.com/2011/12/photos-to-art.html

      it's kind of a lot of work depending on how detailed you want to get, but it's like knitting...do it while you're watching tv and it flies by! there's probably a program that could do this, but not that i could find so i did it by hand.

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